{"id":32351,"date":"2019-08-02T07:12:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=32351"},"modified":"2019-08-02T07:12:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:42:38","slug":"gst-ergon-feed-in-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/gst-ergon-feed-in-tariff\/","title":{"rendered":"Is GST Included On Ergon Feed-In Tariffs? It Depends Who You Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ergon Energy say GST is included in their FiT. The Queensland Competition Authority say GST is not included in the FiT. Who is correct? And why won’t Ergon respond to our questions?<\/p><\/div>\n

This post arises because of a query from a Queensland Ergon customer, who has discovered the solar feed-in tariff set by the state\u2019s competition regulator doesn\u2019t make provision for GST.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t matter to residential customers – they\u2019re not expected to account for GST on the electricity they sell back to the grid.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a different story for business customers, however: electricity sent upstream to the retailer is just another business income, and like any other business income, it\u2019s subject to GST.<\/p>\n

What The Australian Taxation Office Says<\/h2>\n

When our reader e-mailed us about this, it sounded in error to me, so I checked with the Australian Taxation Office. Here\u2019s a reply from an ATO spokesperson (there’s more detail here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\u201cA business that is registered for GST and supplies solar energy to the retailer (as part of that business) is liable to remit GST on the solar feed-in tariffs received for those supplies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The spokesperson elaborated that business owners are:<\/p>\n

\u201crequired to remit GST on the taxable supplies on their Activity Statement. They may need information from the electricity retailer to calculate this amount.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the other direction – retailer supply to the solar power system owner – the spokesperson added that GST is calculated on:<\/p>\n

\u201cthe full value of the electricity they supply to the solar owner, not on the net amount the solar owner pays to the electricity retailer. The electricity retailer has the GST liability on their supply of electricity to the solar owner, and the electricity retailer is liable to remit GST on this supply on their Activity Statement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words: your retailer will bill you for $1,200 worth of electricity (plus $120 GST), and if you sold $880 of electricity back under the feed-in tariff, you need to account for $880\/11 ($80) in your BAS. Returning to the ATO\u2019s advice:<\/p>\n

\u201cthe electricity supplies made by the solar owner and the electricity retailer need to be accounted for separately. Where there are mutual supplies for consideration, the GST law does not allow the price for one supply to be reduced by the price of another.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ll guess that most businesspeople either know this already, or don\u2019t pay much attention to it because it\u2019s a blip in the BAS that their accountant fires off every month, but there\u2019s a wrinkle for our Queensland reader.<\/p>\n

What The Queensland Competition Authority Says<\/h2>\n

He passed us an e-mail from the Queensland Competition Authority\u2019s electricity team which is unequivocal on whether the feed-in tariff the authority sets includes GST:<\/p>\n

\u201cI can advise that the solar feed-in tariff determined by the QCA for regional Queensland does not include GST<\/i>\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Solar Quotes has sighted the customer\u2019s bill, and can confirm that it includes the 44c per kWh set by the QCA under the state\u2019s legacy Solar Bonus Scheme.<\/p>\n

What Ergon Energy Says<\/h2>\n

That\u2019s at odds, however, with Ergon Energy\u2019s website<\/a>, where both the business and residential FiT pages state that tariffs include GST. This is repeated for the three packages available – \u201cSolar feed-in tariff for regional Queensland\u201d, the \u201cSolar Bonus Scheme\u201d, and the \u201cSolar time-varying feed-in tariff\u201d.<\/p>\n

Our informant checked his bill against the QCA tariffs, and said it\u2019s the same rate – meaning that of the solar feed-in tariff he gets from Ergon, he should be sending one-eleventh off to the ATO when he submits his BAS.<\/p>\n

The only alternative, he told us, is for him to raise an account for the GST and send it off to Ergon, and we don\u2019t suppose Ergon would welcome a bunch of tax invoices for the feed-in tariff payments.<\/p>\n

In writing this post I tried to contact Ergon via its media office, by e-mail, phone call, and text message, but haven\u2019t heard back. We\u2019d welcome a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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